IT Director for a non-profit in Washington, DC. Man About Internet.
Marco Arment wrote an interesting post about the adoption of FaceTime by iOS users over time:
We, the long-time iPhone owners, won’t be the first ones to use FaceTime regularly.
But the next generation of iPhone owners will.
FaceTime is the sort of technology that we “old” people will promptly forget that we can do, and then be shocked when we learn that young people are doing it en masse.
I periodically skim my Gmail spam folder for false positives. Once every 90 days or so, Google decides to start flagging the wrong type of automated message as spam (Twitter follower emails was the latest one). While doing this, I noticed the following type of email had started showing up recently. It appears spammers are now preying on the desire of WoW players who want to get an invite to the new World of Warcraft closed beta. Looking through my box there were 5 or 6 of them from just the past 24 hours, from multiple sources, each of them different. This particular one looked the most legitimate, despite that Google flagged it as malicious and its origin came from a Yahoo spoofed account. Nice try.
I've been a fan of Craig Ferguson for several years, especially after this aired: Part 1, Part 2. I think he is one of the most genuine people on TV.
What I love about him is his utter disregard for making a complete fool of himself every night without shame. Occasionally he will replace his before-the-credits intro to his show with a music-video-cover which usually include costumes. I've been lucky enough to watch a few of these shows, but I stumbled across one of these on Youtube over the weekend and noticed that he's actually done quite a few of these. I felt compelled to make you aware of them all, because they're all great.
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson 6/3/09 Craig sings "Istanbul" by They Might Be Giants...with PUPPETS!! :)
10/27/2009 - Craig Ferguson, his staff and the puppets sings "In The Navy"
Craig and Rosie perform Robert Palmer's Addicted to Love. Really good, in a strange kinda of way!
Intro skit from April 20 show featuring funny lip-sync performance to Fat Boy Slim song Wonderful Night before the show's monologue
Craig lip syncs Spears' song "Oops I Did It Again" for the opener to the 5/18 Late Late Show.
10/7/2009 - Craig Ferguson, his staff and the puppets sings "MmmBop"
Craig Ferguson lip syncs to "Say Hey (I love you)" by Michael Franti & Spearhead, surrounded by a fleet of puppets on the 4/15 intro.
This is how you sing the yodel song!
This is probably my favorite of Craig Ferguson's musical cold opens. Music is I'm Yours by Jason Mraz
For the 40th Anniversary of the Moon Landing!
Craig Ferguson does his own version of "White Lines" by Duran Duran
Our first glimpse of Geoff.
May 14, 2012 - This kicking cover of "Scotland Rite Temple Stomp" (by John Crozier of Ninian Hawick) opens Day One of Scotland Week. Craig (vocals), Steve Jones (lead guitar), Tim Mosher (guitar) and Stoker (drums). And we come full circle - Steve Jones is the godfather of the musical cold open.
Finally - an intro we've been waiting for! Melt with You by the Modern English.
This is the "lost" footage of the Craig Ferguson "Doctor Who" musical extravaganza that never made the show...
A blog post from Patrick Rhone is soliciting others to submit pictures of what they carry in their pockets on a daily basis. The idea started from Dave Caolo which was prompted by a tweet from Patrick. Patrick responded to Dave's post and solicited others to do so as well. These types of things interest me as well, so here's mine:
I had the pleasure of accompanying my wife on a recent business trip to San Francisco where her organization, ASAE, had hired Merlin Mann to speak for one of their events. ZeFrank was to keynote the event, but at the last minute, we found out that he was ill and unable to attend. Merlin graciously stepped up and keynoted in his place doing an excellent job.
I've been a huge fan of Merlin for a long time. He is the reason my first DSLR lens was a 50mm, that I know what Thayers™ Original Witch Hazel is, and my yacht wax of choice is Monocle Pete's Magic Yacht Wax. If none of that makes sense to you, well....you're missing out.
Fortunately, I remembered to bring my Flip Ultra HD and Gorillapod with me to San Francisco. However, I want to apologize for the quality of video/audio as my thought to record this was last minute. The room wasn't very videographer friendly, but I managed to attach them to the back of a chair. It starts off a bit shaky a first but settles down after a few minutes. As several times the view is obstructed by some audience members but it shouldn't interfere too badly with your watching/listening to Merlin.
During the event and afterward I snapped a few pictures with both my iPhone 4 and Canon 40D. I event got a few pictures with Merlin and myself. He really is the nicest man on the internet folks.
Also, loving the cool temps and light breeze.
Working while waiting on my flight at Dulles. I'm using my iPad with a Bluetooth Apple keyboard and Steff's iPad as my second screen as I write documentation for our new website.